'How’s the Economy?' – It’s Harder Than Ever To Say

[mystery-ak]

November 26, 2025
'How’s the Economy?' – It’s Harder Than Ever To Say
By John F. Di Leo

 As the calendar comes to an end, and with it, we approach the end of the first year of the second Trump administration, polling companies and media sites are naturally looking for news stories about how the electorate “feels” about the economy.

It’s a permanent question, of course, as it should be, on sites like RealClearPolitics and other polling-tracker focused sites, but there has been an uptick lately, and the question “How do you rate President Trump’s handling of the economy?” is now more frequently in the headlines than usual.

The problem is, it’s an amazingly subjective question, because there can really be no single definition of “the economy.”

There is one’s personal view of the economy – your own job or job search – and if you’re a head of household, then there’s your job, your spouse’s job, your children’s jobs, and the perceived potential or trends going forward in all of your careers.  Is the career you chose for your specialty a career with growing or shrinking opportunities in the foreseeable future?

Then there is one’s view of the local economy – “I’m doing fine – lucky for me – but my town lost a major plant, or the factory relocated to China or Mexico, or the coal mine or oil field or gas clothes dryer factory or lightbulb factory was shut down by the EPA” – and that situation rightly affects your view of the economy in general.

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[Hoodat]

There's nothing hard about it.  Our economy is being stifled by the $2 trillion in deficit spending that robs our dollars of that much in value and hands that value over to an entity that creates zero wealth.  If that $2 trillion remained in the hands of wealth creators, we would be looking at double-digit growth rates right now.